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Supper with spectacular Susans.
The sudden was anticipated when over-the-top designer Machine Dazzle was invited to provide you with costumes for an Opera Lafayette efficiency of an 18e-century baroque opera ballet about three gods in disguise who plot to woo the title nymph “Io”. Recognized for creating wonderful outfits concocted from tinsel, chips baggage, sequins, sequins, paper cups, plastic tubing not too long ago featured in a solo present on the Museum of Arts and Design, Dazzle AKA Matthew Flowers didn’t disappoint. Certain, one reviewer wrote that he’d by no means seen “a lot lycra, lame, glitter, garland, chiffon, and fringe on one stage.”
And the phantasmagoria continued on the subsequent gala dinner, the place Dazzle created centerpieces, maybe partially a homage to Madame de Pompadour’s operatic period. Company greeted by a blossom-adorned odalisque lounging subsequent to the cocktail bar, then dined amongst vibrant bouquets interspersed with veiled and flowery busts — all dubbed the “Susans,” impressed by Lazy Susans ever since. “What number of methods are you able to say implausible?” The New York Instances early in a current full-page Machine Dazzle profile. Listed here are some examples:
Photographs by Patrick McMullan and Sharon King Hoge